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What is CCC? A multidisciplinary current awareness resource –Browse and search journals, books and websites –Save searches and create alerts –Table of Contents alerts via My Journal List File depth: 1998 to present New data added daily Contains: –8800+ journals –2200+ books –7000+ evaluated scholarly websites 7 discipline-specific Editions

Editions and Disciplines CC EditionsEditions Arts & Humanities Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences Clinical Medicine Engineering Computing & Technology Life Sciences Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences Social & Behavioral Sciences CC DisciplineEditions are broken into narrower components to allow for more structured browsing and searching

What is eFirst? eFirst gives users direct access to article data before the article is published in a journal New articles added during daily CCC data updates eFirst articles are returned in CCC search results and alerts Full text linking available for e-journal subscribers

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Search Fields Topic Article titles, Abstracts, Author Keywords, KeyWords Plus “white oak” or “quercus alba” drug resistan* Author Searches any author on the paper Bergstrom CT Wallen K Group Author Group or organization credited with authorship Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group Beta Cell Biology Consortium Publication Name Journal titleCzech Journal of Food Sciences Progress in Brain Research Publication Year Year article was published Address Searches abbreviated author affiliations Emory Univ, Dept Biol, Atlanta, GA USA

Search Tools SymbolRetrieves * Zero or more characters cell* = cell, cells, cellular $ Zero or one character tumo$r = tumor, tumour ? One character only wom?n = woman, women Phrase searching Search an exact phrase by enclosing it in quotation marks “pattern recognition” “climate change” SameTerms must occur within the same sentence, where “sentence” is generally a period-delimited string, in any order. In keyword fields, the SAME operator will retrieve records with search terms in the same keyword phrase.

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